AI Research Engineer (Multi-Modal & Vision)
Tether Operations Limited4 months ago
Remote, WorldwideSenior
Responsibilities
- Conduct end-to-end research and engineering for vision-language models across training, evaluation, and optimization.
- Design and implement supervised fine-tuning, knowledge distillation, and reinforcement learning from human feedback pipelines.
- Curate, filter, balance, and maintain high-quality multimodal datasets for domain-specific tasks.
- Improve model efficiency and deployability for resource-constrained environments using compression and optimization techniques.
- Build evaluation frameworks and benchmarks for performance, robustness, and real-world task success.
- Build and scale training workflows across distributed GPU infrastructure and resolve pipeline bottlenecks.
- Contribute to and leverage open-source models, datasets, and tooling.
- Track multimodal learning research, apply relevant findings, and publish results in leading AI conferences and journals where applicable.
Requirements
- Degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field; a master's or PhD is preferred.
- Strong experience with multimodal post-training, including supervised fine-tuning, knowledge distillation, and reinforcement learning from feedback.
- Hands-on experience with parameter-efficient fine-tuning and distributed training frameworks.
- Demonstrated ability to build and improve vision-language models with measurable benchmark or real-world results.
- Experience adapting models for resource-constrained environments.
- Proven open-source contributions in multimodal AI on GitHub or Hugging Face.
- Publications at top AI conferences such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, or ECCV.
- Excellent English communication skills.
Benefits
- Remote work from locations around the world.
- Opportunity to work with a small, high-caliber team on multimodal AI for real-world deployment.
- Direct impact within Tether's fintech and digital-asset ecosystem.
Categories
AI ResearchML Engineering
About Tether Operations Limited
Tether Operations Limited develops and issues reserve-backed digital tokens used by exchanges, wallets, payment processors, and merchants, most notably the USDT stablecoin available across multiple blockchains. Founded in 2014 and privately held, it earns revenue from token issuance, reserve management, and related services, and has expanded into tokenization, peer-to-peer communications (Keet), and Bitcoin mining. USDT is widely used in crypto trading and cross-border transfers, including in emerging markets.